Hammers are religious. Sandwiches are religious. My irrational fear of wicker furniture is religious. If writing articles about religion is your thing, it sure helps to have such a deep well from which to draw your inspiration, I guess.

When everything is religious, then nothing is.

... everything looks like a nail.

Reminds me of some president too. Hammering constantly.

We're supposed to be building bridges with that president, BG! Guillaumeb is very disappointed that we aren't reaching out more to Republicans.

Yes, indeed!

Even to the ".." response that you excel at.

Doesn't seem interesting to me...

You might try harder.

I am curious to know.

and obviously both feel that their behavior demonstrates something. What that something might be is another matter.

And you?

Unless you feel that they are engaging in self-parody, or that they have no real interest in actual dialogue.

Is that your contention?

the correct phrase is “cannot see the forest for the trees”.

The point is you have to step back from the tree to see that it is part of a larger entity, a forest.

You literally cannot be so close to the forest that you cannot see the tree. The closer you get to the forest the more individual trees you see. Eventually you are so close all you can see is one tree. Which was the point of the metaphor.

Please try again. You need more practice with this metaphor thing.

I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt in this case. I doubt he understood what he was saying.

My misunderstanding.

Probably is a bit vague, but it is a better response than "never".

you are incorrect, z'avez pas de raison, vous.

Step back and look harder.

that it instead looks like its containing geographical feature.

You truly don't appear to understand what "can't see the forest for the trees" means.

It is a metaphor about sets and elements of sets, or if that is too complex for you, the whole thing, and the parts that the thing is made of.

So to re-iterate, to see the trees, step closer to the forest. To see the forest, step away from the tree.

You however should step away from metaphors.

Again.

Why are you like this?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1218&pid=304549

Even if it's on fire, there are some who think the people who refuse to use it are the problem, and not the folks who set it on fire.

because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -- Susan B. Anthony

Doesn't sound like someone who wanted to "build bridges".

Like Pastafarianism.

But if religious folks fall for it?

Hmmmmm. What does that tell us?

That's my guess and I'm sticking to it. Literally. There was peanut butter on the toast.